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A quick tip for monitoring Multiple Shared Processor Pools with topas . Execute topas from the AIX command line. Press the ‘ p ’ key to toggle on ‘pool metrics’. You will see the default pool (pool id 0) and any other pools defined on your system. In the example below, there are two pools, the default (0) and a user defined pool (1). The default display shows the LPARs in the default pool (0), which in this case is sys06_partition8 . Using the up and down arrow keys, I place the cursor on pool ID number one, in the pool column on the... [More]

Back in 2008, VIOS version 1.5.2.1, Fix Pack
11.1 was released .
A new command was introduced with this Fix Pack, called seastat. This handy little utility can be used to view
Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) statistics per virtual I/O client. This is not to be confused with a certain
shell script that Nigel Griffiths wrote a while back! From the man page: “The
seastat command generates a report to view, per client, shared ethernet adapter
statistics. To gather
network statistics at a per-client level, advanced accounting can be... [More]